Expect a little Beyonce, Jonas Brothers and Adele during the UW Marching Band’s first halftime show under new band director Corey Pompey.
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Education in the Segregated South: A Determined African American Culture
Fultz is an emeritus professor with the Department of Educational Policy Studies. He received his Ed.M. and Ed.D. at Harvard Graduate School of Education and taught there in the Administration, Planning and Social Policy program for three years before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.
Being Sad About Not Going Back To School In The Fall Is A Legit Feeling, A Therapist Says
Despite Laurel’s alma mater University of Wisconsin, having a strong sports presence and being ranked as the Top U.S. Party School in 2017, she “never had school pride or strong feelings about my school.” But now, she misses it. “I even tweeted about how I missed the stupid burgers at my college’s famous bar. I bought alumni stuff when I used to hate wearing red on game days,” Laurel tells Bustle.
Hartland native Taylor Amann’s time on this season of ‘American Ninja Warrior’ has ended. Will she be back?
Noted: When Amann was a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, she competed and won “Team Ninja Warrior: College Madness,” a college edition of the program, with two schoolmates.
Exploring with Jill Soloway, 50 years later, shared childhood in urban renewal South Commons
Noted: Soloway went on to attend Lane Tech College Prep, then University of Wisconsin-Madison. They worked as a production assistant, while creating plays with their sister Faith for Chicago’s Annoyance Theatre. Moving to Los Angeles, Soloway was soon writing for “The Steve Harvey Show,” “Six Feet Under” and “Grey’s Anatomy.”
The 2020 electoral map could be the smallest in years. Here’s why.
Northwestern Wisconsin has become more deeply entrenched as Republican territory, while southeastern Wisconsin has become less friendly to the GOP. The city of Milwaukee and Dane County, home to Madison and the University of Wisconsin, remain the biggest and most important vote producers for the Democrats.
A musician with a talent for engineering
Like so many musicians, Schyvinck also proved to be adept at maths and ended up at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a degree in mechanical engineering.
The Fox Point native who died in an elevator accident ‘made everyone’s life brighter,’ his father says
Noted: Sam was the youngest of three children raised by Charles and Laura Waisbren. He attended Milwaukee Jewish Day School, Nicolet High School and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then moved to New York City, where he worked in software sales for CB Insights.
7 fun facts about Taylor Amann, the Hartland native competing in the national finals of ‘American Ninja Warrior’
Noted: “I really surprised myself with each obstacle I made,” said Amann, a 2014 Arrowhead High School graduate and 2018 alumna of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “When I found out I was the top female from city finals, I was just so excited to see what I could do at the next stage.”
UW-Madison ranked 23rd best university in country by Washington Monthly magazine
The ranking appears in Washington Monthly’s annual College Guide and Rankings and is based on three criteria: research, social mobility, and community and national service. UW-Madison ranked 16th, 74th and 55th in those respective categories.
$550,000 Homes in Vermont, Wisconsin and North Carolina
It is on the edge of Hoyt Park in the Sunset Hill neighborhood, less than 10 minutes southwest of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and downtown.
Classroom ‘exodus’: Education schools grapple with finding the next generation of teachers as more leave the profession
While UW-Madison’s teacher education program has a large market share among the state’s preparatory programs due to its size, the number of students earning teaching degrees declined by 25 percent between 2010 and 2016, according to data compiled in a 2018 paper by researchers at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
The Quiet Endurance of Marcy Kaptur
Kaptur was born in Toledo in 1946, the granddaughter of Polish immigrants. Her father ran the family grocery store and her mother worked for auto-parts maker Champion Spark Plug, a company that helped build Toledo but dissolved its last operations there in 2010. The first person in her family to go to college, Kaptur graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and returned to Toledo to work in city planning.
The Gift-Card Budget Strapped for cash, state governments are plugging holes using unspent gift cards. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.
Brenda Mayrack never intended to become an unclaimed-property czar. Even among legal specialties, the field is particularly obscure: During law school at the University of Wisconsin, she remembers hearing only a 10-minute lecture introducing the topic at the end of her trusts-and-estates class. But as the director of Delaware’s unclaimed-property office, Mayrack now oversees a fund of $540 million a year, forgotten by people from Paris to San Francisco and then held temporarily by the state.
The quiet endurance of Marcy Kaptur
The first person in her family to go to college, Kaptur graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1968 and returned to Toledo to work in city planning.
Celebrating 80 years of Oz
80 years ago today, the Wizard of Oz premiered, cementing its place in cinematic history. But did you know a Watertown native and UW-Madison grad played a pivotal role in that movie?
Edgewood High School sues Madison over athletic field conflict, alleges religious discrimination
Noted: Madison’s public high schools do not have master plans, while UW-Madison does. In its federal complaint, Edgewood lists 11 facilities that it says UW-Madison uses for activities not specified in its master plan.
The facilities listed include the Near West Fields, the Near East Fields, the Natatorium and the Goodman Softball Complex, which the complaint maintains are all used for competitions without that use being specified in UW’s master plan.
History preserved, along with Walter Kohler’s bathtubs, in Madison’s Mansion Hill District
Noted: In more recent years, the house, at 130 E. Gilman St. in Madison’s Mansion Hill District, was home to UW-Madison students in the Knapp Memorial Graduate program.
The house — where guest rooms are named after Bull, Kohler, La Follette, Thorp and others connected to the property over the years — was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and a year later was designated as a city landmark. It was placed on the State Register of Historic Places in 1989. Students left the Knapp House in 2012 and since then the house, just up the hill from the UW Lifesaving Station, had been empty.
A Fox Point native died in an elevator accident inside a Manhattan apartment building
Noted: Waisbren graduated from UW-Madison in 2012. He was working as an account executive at CB Insights, according to his LinkedIn profile.
The parents of late Wisconsin astronaut Laurel Clark were killed in a car crash in Arizona
Noted: Clark was one of seven astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. She died when the spacecraft disintegrated on re-entry just 16 minutes before it was due to land in Florida on Feb. 1, 2003. Clark was 41.
Clark grew up in Racine, graduating from Horlick High School in 1979 before heading to Madison, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1983 at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in medicine in 1987.
30-year-old from Wisconsin crushed to death by elevator at NYC apartment building
According to his LinkedIn profile, Sam Waisbren graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2012.
Wisconsin man killed in New York City elevator accident – WXOW
A UW-Madison graduate and Wisconsin native is dead following an elevator accident in New York City.
Don’t Let Metrics Undermine Your Business
Noted: Research that one of us, Bill, did with Willie Choi of the University of Wisconsin and Gary Hecht of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, suggests that simply talking about strategy with people is not sufficient. In other words you can’t just invite them to boardroom briefings and hang signs around the building promoting the strategy—you need to involve people in its development.
What the grievance brigade misunderstands about America
Noted: A statue of Abraham Lincoln at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has been targeted repeatedly for removal because, as one protester from an indigenous student group explained: “Let’s be real. He owned slaves . . .and ordered the execution of Native men.”
How a small Japanese rubber company became the lifeblood of the tech industry
Noted: JSR’s decision to get into that market was bold but Mr Koshiba seemed like the right person for the job. He’d spent two years studying materials science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on a Rotary Club scholarship, was one of the few English speakers at the company and was eager to work abroad. In 1990, JSR sent him to Belgium to set up a photo-resist joint venture with the country’s biopharmaceutical giant UCB. The goal was to target the American market.
More than 1 million people use this app each month to be rewarded for brand loyalty
Wes Schroll didn’t care where he bought groceries. As a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Schroll shopped where it was convenient depending on if he was walking, taking the bus or driving to the store.
He signed up for loyalty rewards programs at various stores. But looking in his pantry, he bought the same brands each week. Schroll wanted to be rewarded for that loyalty. The frustration led him to develop Fetch Rewards, an app that has shoppers scan in receipts to get points for the brand-name products purchased.
Working with farmers, Dr. Dirt helped address water resource challenges
He was known fondly as Dr. Dirt. He used his extensive knowledge of Wisconsin’s soils and his warm personality to help farmers and protect the state’s environment. Dr. Dirt, University of Wisconsin–Madison emeritus professor Fred Madison, died June 3 at the age of 82.
As Free College Tuition ‘Promise’ Programs Grow, What About Wisconsin?
Last year, Wisconsin’s flagship school, UW-Madison, announced the creation of Bucky’s Promise. The program guarantees free tuition to lower-income students. But one WUWM Beats Me listener wonders why Madison, and not other Wisconsin schools?
Vilas Zoo shift from nonprofit partner for concessions, fundraising ‘seamless,’ director says
The zoo also has made strides in several other important areas, Schwetz said, including launching a new website, adding new bathrooms and opening a walk-up window for Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream and having increased access to veterinarians from UW-Madison’s School Of Veterinary Medicine.
Garth’s Brew Bar, set to open this fall, concentrates on expertly curated, craft beers
In college, he was the managing editor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism’s Curb Magazine, where he created two projects related to Wisconsin breweries.
Foxconn leaders, Wisconsin officials meet; details unclear
Foxconn issued a statement saying only that Liu was meeting with Evers, state and local officials, and members of Wisconsin’s higher education community. UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said Liu participated in an “introductory meeting” with university officials about “future partnership opportunities” Wednesday. Lucas declined to elaborate.
Appleton WWII vet turns 100
Noted: Cody Splitt of Appleton was one of the first women to serve in the U.S. Navy during the war and one of five women to receive a law degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison in her graduating class.
In search of Bucky: Where to find the 41 Bucky on Parade statues still on public display
A complete list of the publicly available Buckys and where you can find them.
Q&A: Discovery Institute’s Jo Handelsman takes scientific collaboration to a new level
As director of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Handelsman is immersed in all aspects of science, from fostering new ways to engage the global community in problem-solving to her own research into the communication mechanisms of bacteria.
Sunset paddles, happy hour hikes and other ways a nonprofit is trying to get millennials to give back to nature
Noted: The Glow Float has been the nascent program’s most popular trip and has sold out the past two years. Wayfarers (which means travelers, usually by foot) paddle 6 miles from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Memorial Union Terrace on Lake Mendota to Picnic Point for a bonfire and a talk about the history and significance of the Lakeshore Nature Preserve (which the point is part of). On the paddle back to the Terrace, Wayfarers adorn their kayaks with lanterns and glow sticks. This year’s trip is from 6 to 9 p.m. Aug. 17 and costs $55 (includes kayak rental).
This May Be The Single Biggest Business Opportunity In Human History
Dr. Jonathan Foley, 50, executive director for Project Drawdown, joined me for a discussion about climate change … With a PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Wisconsin and having spent three decades doing and managing research into climate change, he is certainly qualified on the science.
Wisconsin’s Micah Potter waits on NCAA for eligibility ruling
Micah Potter has made his case to the NCAA. About all the junior forward on the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team can do now is patiently wait to hear back from the organization.
State of emergency declared in Wisconsin today after electrical fires
A second fire at a substation near the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a couple of miles to the west, prompted the evacuation of nearby buildings. No injuries were reported as a result of that blast, either.
Stingl: Statue of developer Welford Sanders will be first of a Milwaukee African American
Noted: Lemke shared that Sanders was a UW-Madison grad where he lettered on the fencing team. He taught in the school of architecture and urban planning at UW-Milwaukee and was an author. Sanders and wife Gail, a Milwaukee Public Schools principal, raised three children on Sherman Boulevard.
Former Wisconsin football player petitions for readmission
Former Wisconsin Badgers football player Quintez Cephus has filed a petition to be readmitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison after he was found not guilty of sexually assaulting two female students.
African university gets course on pollution problems with help of UW grad team
Communities in Sierra Leone will have more tools to combat serious pollution and contamination issues with the help of a course created by graduate students at UW-Madison.
The Persistence of School Segregation
Much was written after Kamala Harris’s and Joe Biden’s spat at the first Democratic debate about how Harris was the benefactor of integration by busing. But no one pointed out how much white students benefited just as much from her presence.
Alexandria Millet is a journalism student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Public School Shakedown intern at The Progressive.
Abrupt ousters, public missteps sink morale inside New York Fed
Potter, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from University of Wisconsin-Madison, started at the New York Fed in 1998. As head of the markets desk, he oversaw the end of the Fed’s massive bond-buying program known as quantitative easing, as well as the unwind that began in October 2017.
Former Badger receiver Quintez Cephus acquitted of sex assault charges
A Dane County jury deliberated for less than 45 minutes Friday before finding former Wisconsin Badgers wide receiver Quintez Cephus not guilty of two sexual assault charges.
Here’s what you need to know about the people writing 2020 candidates’ policies
Other advisers include senior adviser and policy director Josh Orton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, law school who previously worked for Senator Harry Reid and President Obama.
Who’s Writing the 2020 Candidates’ Policies? A survey of the advisers and staffers behind the leading presidential hopefuls
Noted: Other advisers include senior adviser and policy director Josh Orton, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, law school who previously worked for Senator Harry Reid and President Obama.
Gilroy shooter obtained ‘weapons of goddamned mass destruction,’ Newsom says
Richard Winton is a crime writer for the Los Angeles Times and part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2011. Known as @lacrimes on Twitter, during 20 years at The Times he also has been part of the breaking news staff that won Pulitzers in 1998 and 2004. He won the ASNE Deadline News award in 2006. A native of England, after getting degrees from University of Kent at Canterbury and University of Wisconsin-Madison, he began covering politics but chose a life of crime because it was less dirty.
Learn to row with the Mendota Rowing Club
The Mendota Rowing Club was founded in 1975 by a group of UW-Madison alumni. It has since evolved into an organization that gives men and women of all ages the chance to get involved with the sport of rowing.
New Madison School Board member looks to use personal experience to inform role
Castro participated in one of UW-Madison’s pre-college programs for low-income students across the state. “Being able to experience education with folks going through similar struggles as I was was really informative to my education,” Castro said. After high school, Castro studied sociology at UW-Madison and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2018.
Wisconsin grad Taylor Amann to compete on ‘American Ninja Warrior’
She left gymnastics for pole vaulting after her junior year, and committed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 2018. During college, she was a three-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-American, among many other accolades.
Who repairs your busted books?
Noted: How does one become a book-repair expert? O’Hara’s path began at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she started on her master’s degree in 1990. While there, she began work in the preservation and conservation area in the basement of the library. She learned to triage and do everything from “tipping” an entire torn page into place to disassembling a book to wash the pages, then put it back together.
A Hartland native and Arrowhead High School grad will compete on the upcoming ‘America Ninja Warrior’
Noted: She left gymnastics for pole vaulting after her junior year, and committed to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she graduated in 2018. During college, she was a three-time Big Ten champion and two-time All-American, among many other accolades.
UW students heralded by companies providing students internships
Recently, a few of these companies such as Morningstar Inc., Pharmaceutical Product Development and GE Healthcare have personally shared why they love working with students from UW.
The Oral History of Revenge of the Nerds
Noted: Steve Zacharias (screenwriter): The story was actually a true story at the University of Wisconsin. Our next-door neighbor didn’t get into any of the fraternities so he started his own fraternity. They’d lose 80-to-nothing in football, and their parties were nerdy, but they had fun.
Timothy Mattke promoted to CEO of MGIC Investment Corp., succeeding Patrick Sinks
Noted: Before joining the company, Mattke was an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has a master’s degree in accountancy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a certified public accountant.
With a lifelong love for lakes, a Hartland woman started a lake life apparel brand with a mission to protect them
Noted: After graduating from Arrowhead High School in 2005, Gramann went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to study marketing.
Worth Bugging Out About? Wisconsin Insect Fest Aims To Celebrate Insects
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Entomology is hosting the two-day event featuring a wide variety of talks, workshops and activities at the Kemp Natural Resources Station in Minocqua. The festival starts Friday and goes through Saturday.
In speech to tech execs, Tony Evers rips Trump trade wars, immigration rhetoric
Meanwhile, Evers reiterated his support for some state-level issues, including allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses and making undocumented students eligible for in-state tuition to attend University of Wisconsin System schools. Both initiatives were in his budget proposal, though Republican lawmakers removed them.
Inspectors Uncovered Potential Issue Days Before Madison Power Station Fires
An explosion and fire around 7:40 a.m. Friday sent a plume of thick, black smoke rising over the city’s east side. A second fire Friday morning at the East Campus substation near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus also sent a cloud of black smoke into the air and caused police to evacuate Ogg and Smith halls and the UW Safety Building.
Tom Bernthal, Sheryl Sandberg’s Boyfriend: 5 Fast Facts
According to his LinkedIn page, Bernthal spent time in the Midwest as a college student. He attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison